Prepare Planned Giving Program at 'Will to Give' Orientation

St. Louis area NPOs who want to educate their donors about bequest giving are invited to attend  a 90-minute "Will- to-Give orientation session, along with a professional wealth advisor, to learn to prepare a planned giving program specifically for that organization. The Will to Give Program is sponsored each year by the YouthBridge Community Foundation. This year's 90-minute morning orientations will be July 16 or Oct. 8. Cost is $30 per attendee, with discounts available to members of AFP, CSPRC, or SLPGC.  Get details/register here.

Planned Giving Training Available to Area Nonprofits

Youthbridge Community Foundation, in partnership with CSPRC, will offer a 90-minute orientation, 8:30 - 10 am July 15  for nonprofits interested in educating their donors about bequest giving.  Offered periodically, Will to Give encourages nonprofits to pair up with a professional wealth advisor for training and preparing a planned giving program for their organization. Cost is$25 for AFP, CSPRC or St.  Louis Planned Giving Council members, $30 for nonmembers.  Find out more and register here.

Social Entrepreneurship in St. Louis

• May 15 -YNPN Brown Bag on Social Entrepreneurship 11:30 - 1, $10 for non-members, Lab 1500, 1500 Washington, Bring your lunch and join this YNPN panel exploring different ideas and aspects of a social entrepreneurship: Aimee Dunne Zander – Community Outreach Coordinator, Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington University; Chris Miller – Founder, The Mission Center and Senior Lecturer, Brown School of Social Work at Washington University; Claire Wolff – Community Engagement Specialist, Old North St. Louis Restoration Group, rsvp at www.ynpnstl.org

• Winners of the 8th annual Youthbridge Social Enterprise and Innovation Competition, through Wash U's Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, the Lutheran Foundation and Daughters of Charity Foundation were announced this month. They included nonprofits Independent Youth,  Circus Harmony Flying Trapeze Center, ArchCity Defenders, Inc. and GoodMap. Find out more about the competition at www.youthbridge.org

• Check out one of these books from the G&FC collection of background reading on Social Entrepreneurship: Social Entrepreneurship; What Everyone Needs to Know by David Bornstein & Susan Davis; Transformational Philanthropy; Entrepreneurs and Nonprofits by Lisa M. Dietlin; the Power of Unreasonable People; How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World by John Elkington & Pamela Hartigan; Daughters of the Declaration ; How Women Entrepreneurs Built the American Dream by Claire Gaudiani & David Graham Burnett; Rippling by Beverly Schwartz: the Search for Social Entrepreneurship by Paul C. Light; or Succeeding at Social Enterprise; Hard-won Lessons for Nonprofits... by the Social Enterprise Alliance. 

Summer 2011 Odds 'N Ends

• Thanks to local fundraising author Carol Weismann who responded to our request for a copy of her hard-to-find Secrets of Successful Retreats by supplying us with additional copies of her Raising Charitable Children and Transforming Ordinary People into Fundraising Superheroes as well.


• Check out this year's new educational and financial support and opportunities for nonprofits available from the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Wash U and Youthbridge Community Foundation at at www.ideabounce.com


• Labor Day last-minute alert: The St. Louis chapter of the American Association of Grant Prfessionals Sept. 6 meeting on How to Make an Ask Compelling on Both Emotional and Rational Levels, led by Melinda McAliney of Lutheran Foundation and Maryanne Dersch of 501 Creative Sept. 6 carry-in lunch, $15 for nonmembers at Central Reform Congregation, Call 618-493-9423 to make a reservation